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Island fox   53427383708🐺

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SpeciesCarnivoraCanidae
Carnivores

🐺Island fox

Urocyon littoralis (Baird, 1858)

روباه جزیره (نام علمی: Urocyon littoralis) نام یک گونه از سرده دم‌دارسگ است.

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≈ 1/33rd of your weight
Conservation status
NTNear threatened

IUCN Red List assessment, 2013.

Population trendIncreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
1.91 kg
Body length
0.49 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
10 years
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Everything we know about the Island fox

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
1.91 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 1.89 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Body length
0.49 m
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Brain mass
29 g
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Maximum lifespan
10 years
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Generation length
3.21 years
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Age at maturity
362 days
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Gestation
53 days
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  • 52 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Litter size
about 2
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  • 2.6AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Trophic level
Omnivore
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Activity cycle
Crepuscular / mixed
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Home range
0.42 km²
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Population density
7 per km²
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Volume l
1.9 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Island fox yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderCarnivora
  5. ›familyCanidae
  6. ›genusUrocyon
  7. ›speciesUrocyon littoralis
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
  3. familyCanidae
  4. genusUrocyon
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderLaurasiatheria
  11. orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
  12. suborderCaniformia
  13. familyCanidae
  14. genusUrocyon
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What it eats
fruit29%
seeds and grain29%
leaves, roots and other plants29%
insects and other invertebrates14%
In other languages
Raposa-das-ilhas (pt), Urocjon wyspowy (pl), Островная лисица (ru), שועל איים אפור (he), Urocyon littoralis (fr), Urocyon littoralis (es) … and 23 more languages
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